I have only run across “sealioning” on Lemmy, and in my experience it is usually a way of accusing people of (a) being polite in a disagreement which is obviously a bad thing (b) asking for evidence of what someone’s saying, which is obviously a bad thing.
I have literally never seen it applied in the form where someone is actually being obnoxious, chasing a person into other threads, asking for evidence that has already been provided, etc.
I have only run across “sealioning” on Lemmy, and in my experience it is usually a way of accusing people of (a) being polite in a disagreement which is obviously a bad thing (b) asking for evidence of what someone’s saying, which is obviously a bad thing.
I have literally never seen it applied in the form where someone is actually being obnoxious, chasing a person into other threads, asking for evidence that has already been provided, etc.
Has your instance blocked hexbear? Because they do this a lot.
Both hexbear and lemmygrad have blocked me, as far as I can tell, which I think means I’m winning.
Like “gaslighting”, the term is more often used incorrectly than correctly.
I’d argue it’s highly present in irl “debates:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAEDLjwO7I
Could I have more pixels?
Haha, oops, copied the thumbnail.
Bonus:
Second one seems more like an example of kafkatrapping
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If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pixels. How can you have any pixels if you don’t eat yer meat?"
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